SMS Service

Oxontime offers an SMS 'text' service for when you are
out-and-about and want to know when your bus should arrive. Before
you start you will need to know theStop Code number of your bus
stop.

There are three basic steps:

on your mobile phone create an
SMS text message containing nothing more than the Stop Code
number

send it to 84637

within a few seconds you
should receive a text message listing the next few RTI-service bus
departures from that stop

If you're at a stop where there are lots of different bus services
try this:

after the Stop Code leave a space then add the bus service number
you want

- we will only send you information for that service ignoring all
the others

If you want to know about buses a bit later in the day, try
this:

after the Stop Code number leave a space then add a time - it has
to be four characters in length, in 24hr clock notation without
punctuation e.g. entering 1345 will be treated as 1:45 pm

- we will only send you information about services at your stop
after this time

- but please note, we do not make very long predictions in
Real-Time terms so don't expect anything too far in the future;
anything much more than one hour would be meaningless in most
cases

You can also combine both these refinements, so long as the Stop
Code number is correct and there is a space between each extra
item, we should be able to interpret it correctly.

What you get?﻿

Where a bus on an RTI-service is not running in a RTI-compliant
mode (perhaps it's radio is broken) it will be shown as a scheduled
departure in 'clock-time' e.g. '16:35' would be the timetable
departure-time for this service at 4:35 pm.

Oxontime only works with RTI-services, not all bus
services, so you will not get information about non-RTI
services that sue the same bus-stops

Cost?

As you would expect, your text to Oxontime will be at your
standard network rate for a text message. You will also be charged
for the return text message, again at your standard network rate;
on most networks the standard charge will be 10p but it can be more
than this - see your network charges. Oxontime does not receive any
money from this service.

It is up to you to check on your phone bills that your network
supplier is charging you the correct rate but please note that none
of our return messages is charged at more than 12p per SMS
message.

If the SMS service itself is unavailable we will not charge you
for the message telling you so.

Where do I send the text?

Our 'short-code' number for the Oxontime SMS service is
84637. On the face of it this is not very memorable BUT on a
standard mobile phone key-pad this is the key-sequence that spells
'TIMES'. Not so useful for those with a QWERTY keypad!﻿